Biosecurity1–3 hoursGuided
Measure how well a room is ventilated
Use a CO₂ monitor to estimate how often the air in a classroom, office or bedroom is replaced, then test what opening a window or running a fan actually does.
DataPeopleView project
BiosecurityTechnicalA few weeksIntermediateSmall API budget
Can AI help people protect their homes from airborne disease?
Explore whether AI tools can lower the effort of improving home air quality, or speed up reviewing the built-environment research literature.
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Why it matters
Defensive technology that is easy to adopt can spread fast. Low-effort tools are how good advice reaches ordinary households.
Output: A prototype or a literature-scanning pipeline.
Possible directions
- An assistant that turns a room description into ventilation advice
- Using AI to scan and summarise built-environment research
Getting started
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Read the README and contributing guide, and get the project running locally.
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Pick one small, well-defined piece of work (look for “good first issue”).
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Say on the issue that you are working on it, then open a draft pull request early.
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Ask for feedback while it is still small; respond to review quickly.
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Write a short post about what you built and learned.
All steps done
Share what you made, then try another project. The PDF version has room for notes.
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Build a room air-cleaning calculator
Make a tiny calculator (a spreadsheet, notebook or web page) that tells anyone how much a portable air purifier would clean the air in their room.
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Make the physics of airborne infection clear
Why does distance matter less indoors? Why does ventilation help? Turn the physics of how infectious particles move and build up in air into a clear explainer or interactive sketch.
VisualReading & writingDataView project
Further reading
- The PRC's Efforts Abroad (opens in a new tab)Reading20 min
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